Anyone else poll watching?

[Bryan330i]

I am off for my few hours of duty. I am so tired I don't know if I could spot anything anyway. It should be fun thought because a friend from Harvard is here and also our attorney friend from SF.

I'm getting smashed later regardless of who wins.

 

[Tom]

I will tonight, but for now its only CNN.com.

 

[gizzy]

Interesting that cnn still doesn't show any exit polls yet. I could have sworn that in the 2000 elections they did.

Oh, well - will be watching it tonight until the wife gets home. She hates politics and want's almost nothing to do with them.

 

[epj3]

In the 2000 elections they were reporting who had 'won' by 5:00.

 

[panzershreck]

yeah i heard an interesting interview with an election & the media analyst on the radio a week ago, and essentially the media learned from 2000, and the objective more-or-less is now whose going to be the last one to report (as the last report will obviously be the most accurate)... none of the networks will say who wins either until all the polls are in (basically midnight EST), essentially they're trying to build up credibility again...

 

[Bryan330i]

I must say, the polling place we were watching was very clean. The only problem seems to be too damn many of us poll watchers. The only conflicts were when the watchers started to get too close to voters and some watchers seemed so upset about cell phone use. I don't know how that would matter, I was watching more for people with voting problems which I thought was the idea.

I should have been more clear. We were actually at the voting locations watching for problems to keep everything fair.

 

[Kirby]

I guess I'm naive - I read about Democratic concerns that Republicans would be intimidating new Democratic voters. I mean, really, does this actually happen? I'm having a hard time believing it. Has there ever been any actual proof? It's totally unacceptable if it does happen.

On the other hand, locally we had just the opposite. The local Judge of Elections (not a legal judge, just a political title) claimed that out of 35,000 to 40,000 new registrations, he thought that 2500 to 7500 might be fraudulent and filed a complaint with the state for an investigation. After an investigation, there were only 20,000 new apps, and about 25 were determined questionable, and some of those were submitted by a person who was "mentally challenged" (at the risk of not being P.C. - retarded). By the way, the Judge of Elections is a Democrat, so it made me wonder - who is hassling who? (by the way, I'm not picking on Dems here, I am registered as a Dem - to me it party affiliation means NOTHING)